Putting on a Show

Could someone or something switch us off? Could it possibly be true that our world is just a hologram, or a dream, or a performance? Although it's about the weirdest thing one could think of, there are some tantalizing clues this might indeed be the case. The English class entitled Nanotexts discusses this topic within the first week of attendance.

Donald Duck was putting on a show for himself and whoever else wanted to venture into his back yard to observe this scaled down world he had created. When something ‘out of scale’ enters the back yard, in the first case, the naturally growing tree was out of scale according to the new world Donald was creating, he pulled it out of the ground, greatly disturbing Chip and Dale who called that tree home. And so the battle begins, Chip and Dale, run away and hid from the crazed Donald and finally they are able to come to a compromise. The hugely out of scale tree is put in the middle of the train track, becoming a tunnel and everyone is happy, the tree is no longer ‘out of scale’ in Donald’s eyes and Chip and Dale still have a home. A sign that is hung on the tree shows that these characters are putting on a show for us, they are always been putting on a show for us and therefore it is possible for us as the observers to simply switch off the television.

“Lose yourself.” When we travel to the Universal Studios Theme Parks, we are told that we can be something that we are not normally in the real world. We are told that if we want to we can tear off our shirts like the Hulk; we can wear a white dress and stand over a vent just like Marilyn Monroe; wear cocktail dresses and gorge ourselves with ribs and other messy meat products. These are all actions that most of us would never dream of doing in our day to day lives here in reality. That is what Disney is good at; they have this down to a science. They know that all of us want to get away every once in a while, we do in fact want to lose ourselves, we want to act like children without a care in the world for what others think. But how much of this caries over into our day-to-day lives? The answer is none. I try not to stuff my face with meat on a daily basis because I know that it is not only unhealthy but also it is looked down upon in society. When we are children we are more carefree, we don’t care what people think, we just want to have fun and experience everything that we can. Disney is putting on a show for us and we completely buy into it while we attend the parks and in turn put on a show ourselves.

Morel brings a group of tourists to an island and proceeds to take photographs of them without their knowledge for a weeks time. At the end of the week they vanish and the fugitive tries to come up with different theories as to what is happening. As it turns out, Morels Invention has somehow processed the photographs from the previous week and now the images are replaying on the island and they will continue playing for all eternity. The fugitive has to watch the woman he had fallen in love with everyday until he decides to record himself in the machine and it kills him. This is another example of a show, well; more of a hologram in the sense that it can be played over and over again but the people are not really there. They would just be figments of our imagination if we were to be on that island witnessing the goings on.

Our universe could fold up. The dimensions we live in could be wrapped up. The very fabric of our physical world could be disrupted by some unprecedented, weird physical event. From one second to the other, our reality would no longer be there. You never know what will happen tomorrow.